Dear Hannah and Karen and Paul's family I have just discovered the news via LinkedIn and am in tears. I would like to send sincerest condolences and wishes to you all for a long life. I was one of Paul's trainees on a December 2006 training course at Regent's College, when Freddie Strasser was also teaching. It did change my life. I remember driving away through the park and feeling sun had broken through clouds, the cleverness of it all, the case studies from the bug in the ginger beer to the sharing the orange and Paul getting me to drop a journalistic habit of note-taking and just Listen. I last saw Paul by chance at an event to say goodbye to the outgoing Lithuanian Ambassador last autumn (glass and canapés in hand) He always twinkled at me and was ever so warm and kind. I assisted him on one mediation and in return he took me to lunch at the Middle Temple, along the way showing me his amazingly Dickensian office. I took up every recommendation he made, including community mediating for many years for CALM in West London. But, not being a trained lawyer and also not temperamentally an entrepreneur, I never stuck it out as a mediator for money. But I regret I never had a chance to thank him for what I feel was a real gift. I may one day write more of my recollections, and would like to join you at the memorial service. For now please accept my best wishes.